Orlando
Tilda Swinton's performance...is luminous and thrilling, an omnisexual romp through 400 years of history.
Orlando
A new restoration, showcased as part of Sony Pictures Classics' 30th Anniversary Collection and screening with Potter’s 2022 short LOOK AT ME, making its U.S. theatrical debut. Sally Potter’s utterly sui generis gender-bender period piece features Tilda Swinton as an immortal nobleman who inherits his parents’ house back in 1600 from a dying Queen Elizabeth I on the condition that he “not fade,” weathers a catastrophic affair with a Russian princess and then, while serving as ambassador to Constantinople and approaching his 200th birthday, is shocked one day to awake and find himself a woman, unable to lay hold on her property, which she struggles to do through passing centuries, right up to the then-present-day 1990s. Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel but, rather than following it to the letter, boldly taking liberties with the text, a cinematic equivalent of Woolf’s own searching literary inventions.
Genre
Bio-pic,
Drama,
Fantasy,
LGBTQ+,
Literary Adaptation
Runtime
93
Language
English,
French
Awards:
Nominee, Best Production Design, Academy Awards
Nominee, Best Costume Design, Academy Awards
Nominee, Best Foreign Film, Spirit Awards
Nominee, Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival
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Played at
Royal 10.14.22 - 10.20.22
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